[BR-Crater] meteorite hunting

[Ian Kluft]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 05:33:42PM +0000, save children wrote:
> There are several ways to ID a meteorite. Not all are magnetic as some are
> what are called stoney. I am including a link to a good site which has info
> which might help. There is generally melting indication on the surface.
> There is several indicators. I was thinking that it is just easy to find
> dark rocks on the surface of white. They also search ice sheets in the artic
> and antartic. there the ice flows to concentrate them.
>
> http://www.meteorite.com/meteorite-information.htm

It's possible.  I've never tried.  But I think I've heard of others doing
that so Black Rock may already be well harvested.  We've found many small
rocks and bits of litter in the binoculars when looking for rockets on the
main Black Rock playa.

The main playa is a little darker colored and coarser sandy material
than the smaller mountain lakebeds at Lower and Upper Hi Dry.  I think
the High Dry playas are too small to be much of a resource for
searching for meteorites.  The Lower High Dry is less than 1/2 mile
across and Upper High Dry is about 1 mile across.

I think you're likely to find just bullet shell casings on the High Dry
playas.  Though some that we found near there were 1944 air-to-air shell
casings which presumably fell there during WWII in-flight live-fire training.